CBC News and the Raspberry Pi

Mon Mar 5 19:21:22 UTC 2012

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:46:06PM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> What we see here is a common source of confusion.
> 
> Lennart is speaking of the instructions set version, while Stewart
> is speaking of the ARM Core Design version. Both are values are
> correct for the DreamPlug's Kirkwood SoC.
> 
> Most modern ARM SoCs are ARM-11 designs, which use the ARMv7
> instruction set.

Most modern ARM SoC are Cortex-A8 or A9.  ARM11 is ARMv6 (the only ARMv6
design really it seems).  ARMv7 is pretty similar to ARMv6 though.

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